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Day Lily, folio 20 (verso), from Florilegium (A Book of Flower Studies)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image shows an open book with a drawing of a flower on the right page. The book's cover is dark brown and gold. The page is off-white with a double border around the drawing, the inner border brown and the outer border black. The drawing depicts a flower with orange petals and a yellow center. The flower has six petals, three of which are fully open and three that are still closed. The stem is green, and there are two leaves on either side of the stem. The background of the drawing is white with a faint floral pattern. The book is positioned at an angle, with the left side closer to the viewer than the right side. The background behind the book is plain white.

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